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It expanded the definitions and conditions used to make such determinations. The order contributed to the ongoing Lavender scare of the mid-1950s, barring thousands of lesbian and gay applicants from government jobs.
The Lavender Scare was a moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government which led to their mass dismissal from government service during the mid-20th century. It contributed to and paralleled the anti-communist campaign which is known as McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare . [ 1 ]
The phrase "Lavender Menace" was reportedly first used in 1969 by Betty Friedan, president of The National Organization for Women (NOW), to describe the threat that she believed associations with lesbianism posed to NOW and the emerging women's movement. Friedan, and some other heterosexual feminists, worried that the association would ...
The Israeli sister publications +972 and Local Call yesterday published a lengthy account of an AI-based system called Lavender, which the Israeli Defense Forces have been using to identify ...
The name of the group, in fact, came from the leader of NOW, Betty Friedan, referring to lesbian feminists as a “lavender menace” distracting from the core of the movement. [5] It was the general sentiment of many feminists at the time that lesbianism was a private and personal matter that shouldn’t be mentioned in a public sense and had ...
During the Lavender scare, Cohn and McCarthy further enhanced anti-Communist fervor by suggesting that Communists overseas had convinced several closeted homosexuals within the U.S. government to leak important government information in exchange for the assurance that their sexual identity would remain a secret.
Johns Committee namesake and chairman Charley Johns (center) discusses plans to screen out homosexuals from employment in state government and colleges with B. R. Tilley (left), President of St. Johns River Junior College at Palatka, and A. E. Mikell (right), superintendent of the Levy County schools, 1963
In the 1950s, Tress worked as a business economist for the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. [6] [7] In 1958 she was interrogated by the U.S. government for being a lesbian while working as a civil servant. [8] After losing her job in the State Department due to the Lavender scare, Tress began working as a lawyer. [4]